 | 1882 - 462 páginas
...feet of leather. This handsome canopy was made for the funeral ceremony of a queen, Isi-em-Kheb, who was mother-in-law to the Shishak, who besieged and...or four years after the death of Solomon, BC 980. Some of the funeral customs appear very singular. A model of the Scarab, or sacred beetle, in stone... | |
 | Henry Windsor Villiers Stuart - 1883 - 678 páginas
...reflects credit on the taste of the Egyptians ; the general effect 176 EGYPT AFTER THE WAR. [CHAP. XIX. is handsome and artistic, and the contrast of colours...about 20 years between the two events, which would place it about a century later than the Trojan war. Since it was executed, since the busy fingers of... | |
 | Vicountess Marianne Margaret Compton Cust Alford - 1886 - 626 páginas
...which the first and most remarkable is the Egyptian funeral tent of Queen Isi-em-Kebs, mother-in-law of Shishak, who besieged and took Jerusalem three or four years after the death of Solomon, BC 980. It may be described as a mosaic, or patchwork of prodigious size, made of thousands of pieces of gazelles'... | |
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... on, eg, yellow on yellow. It illustrates their lavish expenditure on funeral ceremonies, that this pall, which was only to do duty for one day, should represent such an enormous amount of costly work. We are able to fix the date of this piece of tapestry... 